applause
nounEtymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd Proto-Italic *ad Proto-Italic *ad- Latin ad- Proto-Indo-European *pleth₂-? Proto-Indo-European *pel-? Proto-Indo-European *pleh₂- Proto-Indo-European *pleh₂-u-h₂- Proto-Indo-European *pleh₂-u-d- Latin plaudō Latin applaudō Proto-Indo-European *-tus Proto-Italic *-tus Latin -tus Latin applaususbor. English applause From Latin applausus, from applaudō (“to strike against, to applaud”) (whence applaud).
- borrowed from applausus
Definitions
The act of applauding
The act of applauding; approbation and praise publicly expressed by the clapping of hands, stamping or tapping of the feet, acclamation, huzzas, or other means; marked commendation.
- A few days before, the adulations and applauses of a nation were sounding in her [Marie Louise, Duchess of Parma's] ears, and now she was come to this!
- Livy never gets her share of those applauses, but it is because the people do not know. Yet she is entitled to the lion's share.
To applaud.
- Now Ahab ſees the ground of that applauſed conſent of his rabble of Prophets: […]
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for applause. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA